1560s, from Middle French agathe (16c.), from Latin achates, from Greek akhates, the name of a river in Sicily where the stones were found (Pliny). But the river could as easily be named for the stone.
The earlier English form of the word, achate (early 13c.), was directly from Latin. Figurative sense of "a diminutive person" (c. 1600) is from the now-obsolete meaning "small figures cut in agates for seals," preserved in typographer's agate (1838), the U.S. name of the 5.5-point font called in Great Britain ruby. Meaning "toy marble made of glass resembling agate" is from 1843 (colloquially called an aggie).
雙語例句
1. Even the flaming Agate , was agreed that you excelled as Macbeth.
甚至熱情的阿加特, 都承認你擅長于扮演麥克白.
來自辭典例句
2. He saw before him a flight of agate steps.
他看到前面有一段瑪瑙做的臺階.
來自辭典例句
3. Bao Jianzhen natural agate is the national patent products.
天然瑪瑙保健枕是獲國家專利的產品.
來自互聯網
4. It is round, like the size of a small yellow agate.
它是圓的, 大小很像一個小的黃色的瑪瑙.
來自互聯網
5. Slightly susceptible cultivars include Beniizu, Olympia, Shandongzaohong, Centenial and Agate early.